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Lesson 5: Tuning Game (F)
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So I got that at c that c that gives me that c up 4 and over.
Now the beauty of this is that c gives me that f.
Now, here Sometimes, the the the string will be in tune on one side of the bridge and not in tune on the other side of the bridge.
If it's true for the whole instrument, then your bridge might be out of place and it might need to be tapped back to be put in place because the bridges aren't glued down.
They're only held by string pressure.
If, if you're finding that the bridge seems to be in in good shape, it's where it's supposed to be, most everything's in tune, there's just one that's a little giving you a little fit, what you can do sometimes is lift up on both sides of the string just very gently and that equalizes the string tension on both sides.
This particular design has a brass rod here for these high strings and sometimes the string gets caught.
It can also get caught on the plastic and so I'm stretching on this side using the wrench The the string is wrapped around the hitch pin on this side and it's stretching from here to all the way across, but it's not completely stretching this side.
It's doing all the stretching on this side.
So this side is getting in tune and this side is not right.
So when I lift up I equalize the pressure.
There.
So, from this 1 A, I got D, I got E, or here's D, I got E.
That D gave me G, the G gave me C, the C gave me F.
And so I've got all of those notes that I need.
But I don't have all of my strings tuned, do I?
Steve describes and demonstrates a non-linear tuning game he developed to help him both tune and learn where identical and related notes are on the hammered dulcimer by tuning all the Fs.
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